The Value of Visualization

Anecdotes

Chris Mihos described how the visualization he was doing for the Cosmic Voyage IMAX film helped him understand observations of offset stars and gas in Arp 299.

Educational Research

Jordan Raddick and Adrienne Gauthier will be doing an extensive literature review
in and around education issues dealing with, or peripherally with, "data
visualization" and "real data in educational applications". We'll be
perusing all sorts of educational and scientific communities trying to
find qualitative, quantitative, and even anecdotal evidence that data viz
works well in an educational setting. We'll probably publish in AER, if
not informally through other means like AAS.

Outcomes and Recomendations

Recomendations

Outcomes

See "The Value of Visualization" above for compilations of anecdotes and reasearch which demonstraits that visualization is a worthwile endeavor.

Daniela Rosner's presentation at the INSAP conference will showcase work by Matt Turk, Mark Whittle and John Dubinski as well as that of Dinoj Surendran, Randy Landsberg and Mark SubbaRao.

Frank Summers, Alex Griswold, and Alyssa Goodman are planning to leverage
IIC resources and Harvard student-power to set up a site to not only
showcase Astronomical visualizations, but also to archive and/or
provide access to code and its authors/suppliers. More on that soon.